Handheld Measuring Device

• US 20130179123A1
• Filed: 10/26/2010
• Published: 07/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Krapf, Reiner, Mahler, Michael, Wuersch, Christoph, Kaneider, Wilfried, Sgarz, Heiko
• Granted Patent: US 9,513,140 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/187
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 3/08 with provision for safeguarding the apparatus, e.g. against abnormal operation, against breakdown
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 3/15 specially adapted for use during transport, e.g. by a person, vehicle or boat

Abstract

A handheld measuring device includes at least one locating sensor provided for locating at least one object in a measured object, and has a protective circuit that comprises at least one object sensor provided for registering at least one object parameter which at least depends on an alignment of the locating sensor to the measured object. The protective circuit has at least one operator sensor provided for registering at least one operator parameter dependent on an operator.

Claims

1. A handheld measuring device, comprising:

at least one locating sensor configured to locate at least one item in a measurement object, and

a protective circuit which has at least one object sensor configured to record at least one object parameter which is dependent at least on an orientation of the at least one locating sensor with respect to the measurement object

wherein the protective circuit further has at least one operator sensor configured to record at least one operator parameter dependent on an operator.

2. The handheld measuring device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the protective circuit further has at least one evaluation unit configured to output a control parameter dependent at least on the object parameter and the operator parameter in at least one operating state.

3. The handheld measuring device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the object sensor is configured to determine the object parameter on the basis of a distance between the locating sensor and the measurement object.

4. The handheld measuring device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the locating sensor is configured to emit a broadband radio signal in at least one operating state.

5. The handheld measuring device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the protective circuit is configured to influence emission of the broadband radio signal in at least one operating state.

6. The handheld measuring device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the locating sensor and the object sensor are at least partially integral.

7. The handheld measuring device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the object sensor and/or the operator sensor is/are configured to measure capacitively.

8. The handheld measuring device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the object sensor and the operator sensor have an at least partially integral measuring mechanism.

9. The handheld measuring device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the object sensor and the operator sensor are at least partially connected in series.

10. The handheld measuring device as claimed claim 1, wherein the operator sensor is configured to detect at least one acceleration.

11. The handheld measuring device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the operator sensor is configured to detect at least one speed.

12. The handheld measuring device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the at least one speed is at least one operating speed.